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Deborah Rundle, Love is, 2013, mild steel, fluorescent lights. Photo: Jill Segedin

Identity and ‘Alternative’ Love

ARTSTATION

Auckland

 

Group show
Should Love Come First?

 

12 February - 23 February 2013

A queer look at self esteem

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Denys Watkins, Colletus, 2011, acrylic on linen, 150 x 90 cm

Painting Highlights at Bath St.

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Group show
Summer Exhibition

 

12 February - 2 March 2013

A selection from group show

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Mark Adams, 25.5.1997. At Tuhawaiki's Memorial Ruapuke Island Silver bromide contact print from 10x8 inch black and white negative printed 1997

The Length and Breadth of the Land

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Mark Adams
Archives

 

8 February - 2 March 2013

Recording historic sites


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Johl Dwyer, Soap, plaster, acrylic, 12K white gold, cedar.  245 x 145 x 20mm

Johl Dwyer’s Explorations

TIM MELVILLE GALLERY

Auckland

 

Two artist show
Johl Dwyer and Emma Smith

 

12 February - 9 March 2013

Innovative mixing of curious materials

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Julian Hooper, Maintainance, acrylic on canvas

Hooper Abstractions

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Julian Hooper
Are you ready for love?

 

9 February - 2 March 2013

Whimsical and organic

JH
Martin Basher, T.B.C., installed at Starkwhite

Basher’s Consumerist Equivocation

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Martin Basher
T.B.C.

 

4 February - 2 March 2013

Showcasing contradictory messages


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John Ward Knox, No Title 2, 2013

New Work From John Ward Knox

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

John Ward Knox
on going

 

9 February - 2 March 2013

Two ways of thinking and looking

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Steve Carr, Dead Time, 2012, 7 channel installation, Phantom Flex transferred to ProRes HQ files synchronised through multiple hard drives. 520 seconds long.

Steve Carr Assortment

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Steve Carr
X

 

31 January - 2 March 2013

Curious collection of video and sculpture

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George Egerton-Warburton, Boredom is a Desk with Legs in a Fish Spa (20120, HD Video/Continuous Loop. Actor David Wells, Filmed by Nick Roux, microphone wrangler: Robbie Dixon. Video still.

Egerton-Warburton at Artspace

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

George Egerton-Warburton
Steaming Ties

 

25 January - 2 March 2013

Three inventive variations of unedited video


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Buchanan’s Permeable ‘Membranes’

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Ruth Buchanan
On or within a scenario

 

1 February - 2 March 2013

The borders of curtains

JH
Silo 6 on the Auckland waterfront

Wynyard Quarter Silo 6 Installations

Summer of Sculpture

Auckland

 

Eight projects
Silo 6 Installations

 

1 February - 22 February 2013

Art on Auckland’s waterfront

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Gregor Kregar, Pavillion Structure, recycled timber, 7000 x 8000 x 8000 mm

Outdoor Sculpture on Beautiful Waiheke

HEADLAND: SCULPTURE ON THE GULF

 

30 selected artists
2013 Sculpture Walk

 

25 Jan. - 17 Feb. 2013

Can it compete with the scenery?


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Gavin Hipkins, Empire (Beach), 2007; Ani O'Neill, Fresh Eke (Eke Nui and Babies) 2003-4; Julian Hooper, Herceg, 2008. Gifts of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery Photo: Jennifer French

Saluting the AAG Patrons

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Collection show
Partner Dance

 

1 December 2012 - 7 April 2013

Benefactors’ contributions

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Jaimi Haycock, Chicken, 2012, HD video transferred to DVD

Femme Fatale

VIEWFINDER

Auckland

 

Jaimi Haycock
Chicken


24 January - 6 February 2012

A carnal devouring

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Rangituhia Hollis and Vaimaila Urale, Mata Mata at Mangere Arts Centre

Hollis and Urale in Mangere

MANGERE ARTS CENTRE NGA TOHU O UENUKU

Auckland

 

Rangituhia Hollis & Vaimaila Urale
Mata Mata

 

24 November 2012 - 7 February 2013

Recreational Cultural Synthesis


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Tahi Moore, Abstract sequels, returns, installed at Hopkinson Cundy

Tahi Moore in Arch Hill

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Tahi Moore
Abstract sequels, returns

 

8 December 2012 - 26 January 2013

Text and added images

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Dane Mitchell: Radiant Matter I/II/III opened.

Dispersed Molecules as Sculpture

Dane Mitchell: Radiant Matter I/II/III

Essays: Beyn, Kreisler, Rabinowitz, Sharp and Mitchell

Pub. by Berliner Kunstlerprogramm / DAAD, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Artspace, 2011.

Radiant Matter’s book

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Grant Stevens publication cover, Are you Upset with Me?

Life’s Universal (Hackneyed?) Dilemmas

Grant Stevens
Are You Upset with Me?

 

Essays by Mark Pennings and Chris Kraus

Published by IMA and Gallery Barry Keldoulis 2011

Scrutinising sentimentality


JH
Shane Cotton, Eden to Ohaeawai, oil on canvas, 1998-2000. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of the Patrons of the Auckland Art Gallery, 2012

John Hurrell’s Twenty-One Picks

AUCKLAND DISTRICT

Highlights of 2012.

John’s personal choices

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The Coming Year…

The Publishers

Sustaining EyeContact

Sustaining this forum

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Maddie Leach, Evening Echo, 2011, detail, The tall lamp at Shalom Park, Cork, Ireland

Between Memory and Trace Part 3

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Maddie Leach
Evening Echo

 

17 Nov. 2012 - 10 Feb. 2013

Leach’s symbolic layering